Setting extended attributes

parsan99

Hi

I have a workflow for DCR creation. In this process, I need to read certain values in the DCR and set them as extended attributes to the DCR. I have an external task to do this job. In the perl file (called by external task) I use iwextattr command line to set the EA's. I have about 12 fields to set as EA's. Do I have to call iwextattr so many times to set the EA one by one?. I tried using iwextattr -s EAName1=value1 -s EAName2=value2 //IWSERVER/file.. It sets only the last value EAName2=value2. Any suggestions here will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!!

Migrateduser

Sorry, iwextattr only supports one attribute setitng at a time. You might want to open a support case so that this can get filed as a feature request.

There _is_ a Java OpenAPI function that will do this in one call, but the overhead of starting up a JVM from an externaltask is high for such a small job.

I think simplest way would be to write a little Perl function that would take a vpath to a file and a hash of name-value pairs, and apply the tuples represented by the hashset to the named file by calling iwextattr in a foreach loop.

bw


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